Android Question Make a shorter link in B4A ?

[marcick]

Hello,
is that possible in B4A, without using any web services, just with some computation, to generate a short link that will be recognized on the web ?
Or it is not a formula and just a random sequence generated on the fly throught the web service (tinyurl, goo.gl etc ?)

 

[Erel]

Or it is not a formula and just a random sequence generated on the fly throught the web service (tinyurl, goo.gl etc ?)

That is the correct answer.

 

[Derek Johnson]

You could perhaps pre-create a bunch of short-cuts with pre-defined names that would connect to predictable longer URLs that you might be generating in your app. TinyUrl (and probably others as well) allow you to specify the short URL that you want (provided that it has not been issued already).

 

[marcick]

Understood, but no, they are link to googlemap like "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=35.128061,-106.535561&ll=35.126517,-106.535131&z=17
and everytime are different.
Thank you

 

[DonManfred]

and everytime are different

Then you need to create you own short-url service or use one of the exiting ones and create a shortlink if you need to use one

 

[MarcoRome]

You can utilize this library SHORTLINK

 

[DonManfred]

You can utilize this library SHORTLINK

you are right...

But basically he said in post #1 that he dont want to use online services

without using any web services

But as i see no real alternative; he need to use your or any other shortlink services to create an short-link

 

[MarcoRome]

you are right...

But basically he said in post #1 that he dont want to use online services


But as i see no real alternative; he need to use your or any other shortlink services to create an short-link

Right Don me too dont see real alternative for this exist this library